Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City on an anti-Tammany ticket and lost by a small margin. In 1906 he took the Tammany nomination for Governor and then broke with Tammany. The Demicratic ticket was elected? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff ?as a Republican. In 1909 he ran again for Mayor of New York and lost. In 1910 he ran for Lieutenant Governor and lost. His ventures were attended with worse and worse luck at the polls. He has never been able to get the same circulation on the ballot that he got for his papers...
...Manhattan, while Frank D. Waterman, nephew of L. E. Waterman, famed fountain pen maker, was being congratulated on having received the Republican nomination for Mayor, an old man sat in a vacant office on Madison Ave. staring at a fountain pen of antique design. He, Warren N. Lancaster, onetime business rival of the famed Waterman, told reporters how luck had undone...
Died. Herbert Parsons, 56, lawyer, Republican politician, onetime New York City Alderman (1900-1903), onetime member of Congress (1905-11), onetime (1916-1920) Republican National Committeeman from New York; in the House of Mercy Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass., of a ruptured kidney sustained attempting to ride his son's motor-driven bicycle...
There were nearly a dozen candidates in the field and the interest centered on the Republican contest, in which four aspirants were entered. Those four were: Robert M. LaFollette Jr., running on his father's platform; Roy Porter Wilcox, onetime state senator, candi- date of the Republican state organization, Francis E. McGovern, former Governor (1911-15) running on a compromise Coolidge-La Fol- lette platform; and Daniel Woodward, "Coolidge-Dawes" candidate with Ku Klux support...
...expected, the young La Follette won the Republican nomination. He had some 180,000 votes, nearly 100,000 more than Wilcox, who ran second, and about 30,000 more than all the other Republican candidates combined...